Quote of the Month; July….2010
“Take a chance, deny control, love someone and see what happens”
~Genesis P-Orridge; musician, mystic, and artist.
“Take a chance, deny control, love someone and see what happens”
~Genesis P-Orridge; musician, mystic, and artist.
“Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.”
~ Joseph Campbell; author, philosopher, mystic.
“Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn’t give you what you desire – it tells you how to desire.”
~ Slavoj Zizek; professor and philosopher.
“Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.”
~ Allen Ginsburg; author, poet, social critic.
“Where the vulgar laugh, the philosopher admires; and the philosopher laughs where the vulgar open their big stupid eyes in astonishment.”
~ Voltaire; author, philosopher, and satirist.
“Nothing was holy to us. Our movement was neither mystical, communistic, nor anarchistic. All of these movements had some sort of program, but ours was completely nihilistic. Our symbol was nothingness, a vacuum, a void…”
~ George Grosz; artist and DaDa proponent.
“What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world’s beauty, is everything!”
~ H. P. Lovecraft; author, writer, and storyteller.
“Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.”
~ Robert Anton Wilson; writer, philosopher, and sit-down comedian.
“Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can’t talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.”
~ Philip K. Dick; science fiction author and philosopher.
“When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.”
~ Evelyn Waugh; writer and social critic.